Friday, June 21, 2013

Letter to the new legal representative of the nominal accusers of Julian Assange. By John Goss

"I,
and many others, believe this case is more about politics, and how the
United States wants to stop Wikileaks telling the truth, than a
personal, and what should in fact be a private affair, between two
lovers. Would your client not agree with that? Would you not agree with
it?"

Introduction

By John Goss

The
new legal representative of Sofia Wilen is Elisabeth Massi Fritz. One
of the first things she did when she took over was to seek publicity by
posting about how much under stress her client was due to the case
taking so long to come to a Swedish court.

She
never mentioned how much stress Julian Assange might be under, cooped
up in the Ecuadorian Embassy, because of allegations which increasingly
appear to be of a political origin. She also saw to it that the press
release contained an allegation of rape again. Having read Sofia Wilen's
first statement, the one she would not sign, the one she refused to
continue with as soon as the word 'rape' was mentioned, it occurred to
me, and I know a lot of other people, that Sofia was being coerced into
testifying against Assange. So I wrote to Ms Fritz to try and find out
whether this new statement was the sole work of Sofia. Ms Fritz did not
respond.

Later
it was revealed that there were two statements issued, one for the
Swedish media, and one for the international media. It was also revealed
that Ms Fritz may not have been the author of these press releases, but
Anna Sjögren.

There
may be a legitimate reason for Ms Sjögren's name being on at least one
of the documents, for example Ms Fritz could have been using a
colleague's computer, but as her office has not responded to my first
request, I have no great hopes of a response from my second.

The
initial keenness of Ms Fritz to talk to the press seems to have been,
like the whole affair, generated by a political motive. Her reluctance
to respond to perfectly legitimate questions makes me suspect that it is
not justice she seeks but the continued persecution of Assange. Both
Assange and Sofia Wilen appear to be victims of Sweden's fealty to the
United States of America.

John Goss, journalist and author, UK

I

As
the legal representative of Sofia Wilen would you please be good enough
to answer some questions about the how the Swedish legal system works
with regard to this high-profile case? I notice you have been talking to
the press a lot more than Claes Borgstrom ever did. As a journalist I
welcome that.Has Sofia Wilen been advised to change her lawyer because
it has been revealed that Borgstrom’s firm and Sweden’s ambassador to
Australia, Mr Sven Olof Petersson, were implicated by having knowledge
of the rendition and torture of Egyptians from Sweden Mr Ahmed Agiza and
Mr Muhammed al-Zery? Through this revelation Mr Borgstrom has been
discredited as much as his other client Anna Ardin with deleted tweets
and her deleted blog about seven legal steps to revenge against men who
dump their lovers. So I realise that Sofia is the only plaintiff with
any degree of credibility.

I,
and many others, believe this case is more about politics, and how the
United States wants to stop Wikileaks telling the truth, than a
personal, and what should in fact be a private affair, between two
lovers. Would your client not agree with that? Would you not agree with
it?

Before
these allegations Julian Assange had been around for nearly 40 years
without any charge of rape or sexual misdemeanour made against him, and
then, like a number 11 bus in Birmingham where I live, two come along at
once. Does that not appear to be something of a coincidence to you?

The
original police statement made by Sofia Wilen, the one she did not
sign, is significantly different from what you say she is saying now. In
the UK we had a Dr David Kelly (sadly dead now) who told the truth that
our government had ‘sexed up’ a dossier on Saddam Hussein’s capability
of having weapons of mass destruction in order to take us into an
illegal war. The phrase ‘sexed up’ has as much to do with sex as the
Swedish word for ‘rape’ appears have to do with rape (forceful and
painful penetration without consent) and what the phrase actually means
is that the dossier had been embellished to make a stronger case for
war. Have you, Ms Fritz, embellished or advised Sofia Wilen to embellish
her original statement to make a stronger case?If you have embellished
the statement, or helped her do it, could not the stress you say she is
under actually be caused by you?

Has
your client any idea who illegally leaked the ‘rape’ story to the
press? Because that’s one of the reasons I believe this is political
rather than personal.Why do you not come to the UK to interview Julian
Assange about the allegations or at least guarantee that Sweden would
not extradite Assange to the US? Then it would be over for both your
client and for Mr Assange, who is also suffering.If you answer these
questions please be assured I will publish your answers. If you don’t I
will just publish the questions on their own. I will forward this email
letter to a trusted friend and allow you five working days to respond.I
thank you in anticipation of your keenness to share stories with the
press.Yours sincerely,

John Goss

II

from:

john goss

to:

"info@advokatfritz.com" ,

date:

17 June 2013 15:32

subject:

Continued persecution of Julian Assange

Dear Ms Elisabeth Massi Fritz,

I
wrote to you last week about your keenness to talk to journalists
concerning your client's allegations against Julian Assange and hoped,
wrongly it seems, that you might answer a few questions about the case
which you claim is causing so much distress to your client. Since then I
have discovered that you may not have written the press releases, of
which there appears to be a version for Swedish consumption and one for
international readership.

Can you confirm that you are the author of these releases, or is that author Anna Sjögren?

If
Ms Sjögren wrote and released the documents under your name, do you
consider it proper legal practise for her to have done so? Was the
release made with your knowledge?

When were these releases made? Were they released on 21 May, 22 May or 4 June?

If
the purpose of these releases was to expedite proceedings, as was
claimed, and journalists contact you to see how they can help, would it
not be in the best interests of your client, and the interests of Julian
Assange, to answer the questions?

I
apologise for not being able to ask these questions in Swedish. If that
is causing you a problem perhaps you would be good enough to answer
them in Swedish, as one of my colleagues copied into this email would
help with the translation.

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